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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1849290" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>AH, ok, the light finally came on. Yes, the Document and Desktop folders in iCloud are reserved, as it were, for use to unload the local Mac from having all of the documents on the local drive and as such, only sync with the individual Macs when they are, in fact, associated with those by turning it on. In your case, had you created a folder on iCloud named anything but that, it would be synced to any other machine, including iPhone and iPad, that used iCloud drive as storage. So, for example, a folder in iCloud named "LIAB" will sync to all accounts associated with that same AppleID and iCloud account. That's exactly how my wife and I share documents we both edit together. </p><p></p><p>That does not solve the zero length files, unless as you referred to earlier, you transferred an alias instead of a real file. But it does solve the sync issue for you. Just create a separate folder in iCloud for what you want to sync across machines. I tested it and you can drag that to the Sidebar to be available to you all the time. Dragging and dropping files into that folder then show up on all other linked devices where they have the little cloud icon, but can be downloaded. I set up a folder and put a file in then went to my iPhone and there it was!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1849290, member: 396914"] AH, ok, the light finally came on. Yes, the Document and Desktop folders in iCloud are reserved, as it were, for use to unload the local Mac from having all of the documents on the local drive and as such, only sync with the individual Macs when they are, in fact, associated with those by turning it on. In your case, had you created a folder on iCloud named anything but that, it would be synced to any other machine, including iPhone and iPad, that used iCloud drive as storage. So, for example, a folder in iCloud named "LIAB" will sync to all accounts associated with that same AppleID and iCloud account. That's exactly how my wife and I share documents we both edit together. That does not solve the zero length files, unless as you referred to earlier, you transferred an alias instead of a real file. But it does solve the sync issue for you. Just create a separate folder in iCloud for what you want to sync across machines. I tested it and you can drag that to the Sidebar to be available to you all the time. Dragging and dropping files into that folder then show up on all other linked devices where they have the little cloud icon, but can be downloaded. I set up a folder and put a file in then went to my iPhone and there it was! [/QUOTE]
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